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Avena barbata is a species of wild oat known by the common name slender wild oat.It has edible seeds. It is a diploidized autotetraploid grass (2n=4x=28). [1] Its diploid ancestors are A. hirtula Lag. and A. wiestii Steud (2n=2x=14), which are considered Mediterranean and desert ecotypes, respectively, comprising a single species. [2]
- Tall Oat Grass [Wo] Brachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) Beauv. - Bearded Shorthusk[Wo] Bromus commutatus Schrader - Upright or Hairy Chess [M, Wo] Bromus japonicus Thunb. - Japanese Bromegrass [R] Bromus pubescens Muhl. - Canada Brome [Wo] Bromus secalinus L. - Chess, Cheat [R] Bromus tectorum L. - Drooping Brome, Downy Chess, Downy Brome [Wo]
A type of naked oat called pillas, pilez, or pil-corn in the Cornish language and dialect of English [6] may have been the same species as Avena nuda. John Ray calls it Avena minuta. [7] Well known in the 17th century it was commonly grown in Cornwall as late as the 18th and 19th centuries. [8] The last known crop was harvested at Sancreed in ...
Avena is a genus of Eurasian and African plants [5] in the grass family.Collectively known as the oats, they include some species which have been cultivated for thousands of years as a food source for humans and livestock. [6]
The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural). Oats appear to have been domesticated as a secondary crop, as their seeds resembled those of other cereals closely enough for them to be included by early cultivators.
Avena fatua is a species of grass in the oat genus. It is known as the common wild oat. This oat is native to Eurasia but it has been introduced to most of the other temperate regions of the world. It is naturalized in some areas and considered a noxious weed in others. [2] [3] [4]
Pterostylis lepida is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and between five and ten egg-shaped leaves forming a rosette about 50 mm (2 in) in diameter.
Avena strigosa (also called lopsided oat, bristle oat or black oat; syn. Avena hispanica Ard.) is a species of grass native to Europe. It has edible seeds and is often cultivated as animal feed in southern Brazil.